Intel Kills the NUC, Will Stop Selling PCs

Intel has confirmed that it has killed its NUC family of tiny PC products and will exit the market.

“We have decided to stop direct investment in the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) Business and pivot our strategy to enable our ecosystem partners to continue NUC innovation and growth,” an Intel statement reads. “This decision will not impact the remainder of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) or Network and Edge Computing (NEX) businesses. Furthermore, we are working with our partners and customers to ensure a smooth transition and fulfillment of all our current commitments, including ongoing support for NUC products currently in the market.”

For those unfamiliar, the Intel NUC was a line of (very) small form factor (SFF) PCs that could be purchased as complete PCs or as kits where you could add your own RAM and storage. Most of them were basically laptops in a desktop case, but Intel also sold high-performance NUCs, including gaming PCs, and even laptop kits.

And as I’m sure many know, I’ve always been a huge fan of the NUC and have owned three of the tiny PCs, including a NUC6I5SYH model based on a 6th Gen Intel Core chipset, a NUC8i7BEH model based on an 8th Gen Intel Core, and then my beloved NUC10i7FNH that was based on a 10th Gen Intel Core; sadly, that last NUC was destroyed by an electrical surge when Lightning struck the ground just 15 feet from our house.

RIP, NUC.